general assembly, and then contacted authorities. why is he seeking asylum? >> well, he's seeking asylum because he obviously does not want to return to live in iran. >> why? >> concerns about -- first of all, he does not want to continue to live in the regime, and he is offended by how the regime treats people, about how it treats its enemies, about how it treats the iranian people, about the level of persecution there. and he also has concerns about now about his own safety. when he came here, he was, as you say, he was a cameraman with the entourage. he came here with the understanding that he was to take the deal of the -- he works for the iranian news agency so he was to do stuff and to do camerawork, you know, at the u.n. and all of that. the authorities wanted him to take video footage of other stuff that he did not want to do. >> like what? >> we don't want to go into too many details but there was things that he thought that he -- >> like propaganda-type stuff? >> yes, things that were outside of what he had -- had -- had thought that that was -- i d